“Any Given Day ultimately becomes about laying yourself bare, and both Margaret and her subjects should be commended for their strength and perseverance in sharing an especially tumultuous and taxing five-year period of their lives.”
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“Come Back Anytime is about savouring the time that we have, and about the community that savours with you when the time you have made for yourself is a product of passion, love, and play.”
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“Archipelago (Archipel) is a spellbinding experiment with words, animated images, and occasional snippets of archival footage, combined to often transfixing effect as the island clusters of the director’s native Quebec are surveyed across time and channelled psychically.”
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“There is a savagery inherent to Thana’s life on the planet, a brutality that drills right down to the bone marrow. Wickedness has worked its way into the hearts of men in all corners of her existence and potentially all stages of her life.”
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“When Malcolm X sees his reflection, it is in the hotel room’s windows; he isn't looking at himself so much as he is peering through or past himself to the external threats that conspire against him — the bigger picture. This is telling, because through this simple device we see that it is Malcolm who is most cognizant of the ripple effect this night will have outside the hotel walls.”
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“It is a film that strikes with punchy dialogue and colourfully coiffured characters, but under-utilized plot threads dull its sharpness in the end.”
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“There is a spirit in craft beer the world over that is very specific to California, and Brewmance is at its best when it is charting this spirit through the history of the region and into its modern embodiments of Ten Mile and Liberation.”
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“Sammi Rotibi and John Berchtold are an ideal duo for this story exchanging conversation.”
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“Tempers flare, fighting ensues, entertainment abounds.”
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“Limited settings and one on one discussions…this is where A Hard Problem thrives.”
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“The addition of Darkseid is another one of those quality narrative choices missing from the theatrical version…”
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“Hauru skips dexterously between cinema verité-style footage, iPhone captures, and traditionally cinematic looking dream sequences in ways that give her film both momentum and a feeling like it operates on its own disobedient accord.”
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“A film like this isn’t trying to stir the pot or nudge its characters towards heightened emotions or drastic decisions; Hill is much more content in establishing a scenario and characters that feel authentic and lived-in, and letting these characters fold and pour over each other in ways that feel natural.”
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“Swan Song is a tender and straightforward story, but there are undercurrents of simmering emotion that lace every patch collected on this quilt of Americana.”
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“Ninjababy is spirited and brimming with charm, and comes equipped with appeal for audiences young and old, despite its brief ‘R-rated’ moments.”
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“[T]here is some wicked tension building done along the way with clever sound design and editing choices, and moments of macabre weirdness punctuate the story throughout.”
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“…it’s a worthy story to experience, and Alvarado and Sussberg make good work of distilling it all for audiences.”
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“[W]hat this documentary is most sorely missing ... are the inspired, passionate accounts from Basinski’s everyday fans – the people who might be able to tell us with zealousness what the music really means to them and their existential predicaments.”
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“It is clear that Walker has put a lot of thought and care into her characters and that, in pitting them against each other, she only aims to create a space in which mutual respect and understanding can be cultivated in the most recognizably human of ways.”
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